Beirut — Lebanon marked a nationwide day of mourning on Aug. 4, as the country commemorated the two-year memorial of the Beirut port explosion that killed at least 215 people, injured over 6,000 and left large parts of the city destroyed.
Two years since the blast, the investigation is still suspended and the truth has slipped further away. In the midst of a crippling economic crisis the World Bank cited as one of the worst global crises in the past 150 years, talks of accountability have also been absent from recent political discourse — except for a few of the independent parliament members who were elected to parliament in the recent May elections and campaigned partially on pushing for an impartial judiciary system.
